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Colonial Literature
William Bradford—Of Plymouth Plantation
Anne Bradstreet—"To My Dear…"
"Upon the Burning…"
Jonathan Edwards—"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
John Smith
William Byrd—History of the Dividing Line
Sarah Kemble Knight—"Journal"
Olaudah Equiano
Salem Witch Trials
Federal period
Enlightenment (Deism)
Ben Franklin
Patrick Henry—Speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses
Thomas Paine—The Crisis
Thomas Jefferson—The Declaration of Independence
deCrevecoeur—Letters from an American Farmer
Wheatley—To his Excellency, George Washington
Early Romanticism
Washington Irving—"The Devil and Tom Walker"
Stephen Benet—"The Devil and Daniel Webster"
James F. Cooper—Deerslayer
William C. Bryant—"To a Waterfowl" and "Thanatopsis"
Edgar A. Poe—"Fall of the House of Usher"
"Oval Portrait"
"To Helen"
"The Raven"
"The Bells"
Ralph Waldo Emerson--From Nature and Self-Reliance
Henry David Thoreau--from Walden and his journal
Nathaniel Hawthorne --“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
“Minister’s Black Veil”
Herman MelvilleLongfellow--"Psalm of Life" "Nature"
"The Arrow and the Song"
From Evangeline
"The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" Whittier from Snowbound
Colonial Christmas traditions, foods
Holmes "Old Ironsides" and "The Chambered Nautilus"
Lowell "The Courtin’" tone
Emily Dickinson --"I Never Saw a Moor,"
"Exultation Is the Going,"
"I Taste a Liquor…"
"Some Keep the Sabbath,"
"’Faith’ is a Fine Invention,"
"’Hope’ Is the Thing with Feathers,"
"Success I Counted Sweetest,"
"The Soul Selects Her Own Society,"
"I Took My Power in My Hand,"
"Much Madness Is Divinest Sense,"
"It Sifts from Leaden Sieves,"
"Apparently with No Surprise""A Narrow Fellow in the Grass,"
"My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close,"
"Because I could Not Stop for Death"
Whitman— From "Song of Myself,"
"One’s-Self I Sing,"
"I Hear America Singing"
"When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer"
"A Noiseless Patient Spider,"
"Beat! Beat! Drums"
"A March in the Ranks…"
Lincoln—"The Gettysburg Address"Native American literature
"Song of the Sky Loom"
"Prayer Spoken…"
"Blackfeet Genesis"
Black Hawk’s Farewell
Mark Twain, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
"Baker's Bluejay Yarn"
from Life on the Mississippi
Bret Harte—"The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
Stephen Crane—"The Open Boat"
Jack London—"To Build a Fire"
Upton Sinclair— The Jungle
Olaf Rolvaag— Giants in the Earth
Willa Cather—"The Sculptor’s Funeral" E. A. Robinson -- "Richard Cory" "Miniver Cheevy"
"Mr. Flood’s Party"
E. L. Masters --"George Gray" "Lucinda Matlock"
"Fiddler Jones"
Katherine Porter—"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
Alice Walker—"Everyday Use"
William Faulkner—"A Rose for Emily"
Isaac Singer—"Lost"
Susan Glaspell—"Trifles"
T. Williams— A Streetcar Named Desire
T. S. Eliot—Prufrock
SUPPLEMENTAL TEXTS:
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963.
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms
.
Hersey, John. Hiroshima.
Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. Paulsen, Gary. Nightjohn.
Paulsen, Gary. Sarnie
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome.
Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie.
Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire.
Colonial Literature
William Bradford—Of Plymouth Plantation
Anne Bradstreet—"To My Dear…"
"Upon the Burning…"
Jonathan Edwards—"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
John Smith
William Byrd—History of the Dividing Line
Sarah Kemble Knight—"Journal"
Olaudah Equiano
Salem Witch Trials
Federal period
Enlightenment (Deism)
Ben Franklin
Patrick Henry—Speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses
Thomas Paine—The Crisis
Thomas Jefferson—The Declaration of Independence
deCrevecoeur—Letters from an American Farmer
Wheatley—To his Excellency, George Washington
Early Romanticism
Washington Irving—"The Devil and Tom Walker"
Stephen Benet—"The Devil and Daniel Webster"
James F. Cooper—Deerslayer
William C. Bryant—"To a Waterfowl" and "Thanatopsis"
Edgar A. Poe—"Fall of the House of Usher"
"Oval Portrait"
"To Helen"
"The Raven"
"The Bells"
Ralph Waldo Emerson--From Nature and Self-Reliance
Henry David Thoreau--from Walden and his journal
Nathaniel Hawthorne --“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
“Minister’s Black Veil”
Herman MelvilleLongfellow--"Psalm of Life" "Nature"
"The Arrow and the Song"
From Evangeline
"The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" Whittier from Snowbound
Colonial Christmas traditions, foods
Holmes "Old Ironsides" and "The Chambered Nautilus"
Lowell "The Courtin’" tone
Emily Dickinson --"I Never Saw a Moor,"
"Exultation Is the Going,"
"I Taste a Liquor…"
"Some Keep the Sabbath,"
"’Faith’ is a Fine Invention,"
"’Hope’ Is the Thing with Feathers,"
"Success I Counted Sweetest,"
"The Soul Selects Her Own Society,"
"I Took My Power in My Hand,"
"Much Madness Is Divinest Sense,"
"It Sifts from Leaden Sieves,"
"Apparently with No Surprise""A Narrow Fellow in the Grass,"
"My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close,"
"Because I could Not Stop for Death"
Whitman— From "Song of Myself,"
"One’s-Self I Sing,"
"I Hear America Singing"
"When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer"
"A Noiseless Patient Spider,"
"Beat! Beat! Drums"
"A March in the Ranks…"
Lincoln—"The Gettysburg Address"Native American literature
"Song of the Sky Loom"
"Prayer Spoken…"
"Blackfeet Genesis"
Black Hawk’s Farewell
Mark Twain, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
"Baker's Bluejay Yarn"
from Life on the Mississippi
Bret Harte—"The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
Stephen Crane—"The Open Boat"
Jack London—"To Build a Fire"
Upton Sinclair—
The Jungle
Olaf Rolvaag—
Giants in the Earth
Willa Cather—"The Sculptor’s Funeral"
E. A. Robinson -- "Richard Cory" "Miniver Cheevy"
"Mr. Flood’s Party"
E. L. Masters --"George Gray"
"Lucinda Matlock"
"Fiddler Jones"
Katherine Porter—"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
Alice Walker—"Everyday Use"
William Faulkner—"A Rose for Emily"
Isaac Singer—"Lost"
Susan Glaspell—"Trifles"
T. Williams—
A Streetcar Named Desire
T. S. Eliot—Prufrock
SUPPLEMENTAL TEXTS:
Curtis, Christopher Paul.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963.
Douglass, Frederick.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott.
The Great Gatsby.
Hemingway, Ernest.
A Farewell to Arms
.
Hersey, John. Hiroshima.
Jacobs, Harriet.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Miller, Arthur.
The Crucible.
Paulsen, Gary. Nightjohn.
Paulsen, Gary.
Sarnie
Steinbeck, John.
The Grapes of Wrath.
Twain, Mark.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Wharton, Edith.
Ethan Frome.
Williams, Tennessee.
The Glass Menagerie.
Williams, Tennessee.
A Streetcar Named Desire.